Monday, April 22, 2013

396 Arrests

On a sweltering day last summer, traffic came to a standstill on a bustling stretch of Bryn Mawr Avenue in Edgewater, emergency crew sirens wailed and Chicago Police Officer Tom Rolon hurried to the scene.

The crackling voice in Rolon’s radio reported a woman foaming at the mouth and lying in the middle of the street; Rolon approached and instantly recognized her.

“She looked up at me and says, ‘Officer Rolon, I love you,’ ” recalled the now retired cop, who spent 17 years on foot patrol in Edgewater. “She got up, and all of a sudden she’s OK.”

396 arrests since 1978. And it's not like the cost stops with her serving time, first of all because she doesn't serve much anyway with a few exceptions. Second because she games the system:

Miles is a master at working the system, says Rolon. She fakes seizures
that mean costly hospital visits. She gets judges to delay her cases.
And then she returns to the streets to be arrested again and again — so
many times that she ranks in the top 1 percent for all current CPD
arrestees.

And guess how she finally got sent downstate?

To the relief of many, Miles, 51, is currently in prison in downstate
Lincoln. Police arrested her last August, when — after a day of
allegedly slapping, punching and generally harassing folks on a stretch
of Broadway in Uptown — she is accused of chasing after Ald. James
Cappleman (46th).

Anyone want to bet that if she wasn't chasing Cappleman, she'd still be out slapping, punching, begging and whoring? You can do all that, but if you chase one of the "elite" members of society around, Anita will dig up something to pin on you. They sent her down on a parole violation. How many times have you ever seen a parolee violated for a misdemeanor charge? It's damn rare in Cook County.

57 Comments:

Anonymous said...

Perfect example of justice gone wrong. Hell how many officers had to put their hands on this woman. How many calls for service with no arrests with this woman. I mean woman loosely. She needs real jail time from here on out.

Off topic: There are no pool cars available. The areas don't have enough cars to go around. So why does Lt LG from ERPS get an unmarked black Ford as a take home car? If a Lt in ERPS has a take home car you can bet she isn't the only one from an inside/administrative spot with a car. WTF?

They ARE the kings and queens of Rahm Emanuel's "re-imaged" and wholly "monetized" (at the expense of the captive, formerly formidable middle class of this city) New Chicago.

The middle class exists solely to "donate" a portion of their intentionally diminished income via punitive fines, fees and snatch-backs, to keep this rotting carcass of a city afloat.

Rahm, Sparkle-Farts and others lust for the day when these people finally collapse the whole damned thing into the basement.

Just like the Muslims are wildly replicating to the point of collapsing Europe.

The same is happening here...

You middle class hold-outs who cling to your puny traditions like GOING TO WORK, TRYING TO HAVE SOMETHING AND TRYING TO PASS ON A LITTLE TO YOUR KIDS?

You're obsolete, out-numbered and irrelevant to the visions and dreams of "smart people" like Rahm, Axelrod, Sparkle-Farts and even aldertwirps who run and cry when a two legged, WAY past it's likely expiration date problem bares it's rotten fangs, arches it's back and hisses...

So do decent people trying to be on the public way without having to run the gauntlet...

Heh... Shermaine Miles and others like her be runnin' this raggedy muthafuckah called Chicago.

So let's be clear... The ONLY reason she's in the cooler is because an alderwhatchacallit made a phone call to Anita Alvarez to "do something?"

Likely gist of the phone call?

*Do something because the cops aren't doing their job*

Shermaine Miles and others like her are proof positive that the system is not just broken SCC...

The system has been INTENTIONALLY DESTROYED beyond salvage.

The alder-critter KNOWS THIS but is too fixated on beating on The Police and running them in circles (like all these "smart people" from New Yuck and the North Shore) to give the appearance of "doing something" so as not to be called into question for their total lack of an answer to this ongoing problem.

Don't look at US! YOU jokers craft and pass ordinances and such. Not the "dumb high school drop out" Cops running from silly call to silly call.

Egad... What a flaming shit-show.

396 arrests?

What jack-ass, elected or otherwise, can now say that The Police weren't doing their job?

These people should leave The Police the fuck alone and go camp out on Anita Alvarez's, Toni Preckwinkle's and Tom Dart's front door steps to get some answers.

Policemen KNOW this entire charade of ginned up "why don't you Cops do SOMETHING" faux outrage is the biggest farce and exercise in futility in the history of law enforcement and public safety.

It's good for the average citizen to see that The Police ARE NOT the problem in this fiasco.

Reminds me of "Mailbox Marilyn". She got her name because she always had an envelope on her addressed to herself and whenever she was approached by the police, she'd put the cash form her night of prostitution, into the envelope and toss it into a nearby mailbox so the evidence could not be inventoried.

She had hundreds and hundreds of arrests for soliciting and other charges. She used to spit on coppers and on the windshields of the squad cars. There used to be a female holding cell behind the desk of the old 018 where all of the hookers were held until filled and a wagon would take them all to Women's Central Detention, downtown. Marilyn would squat right in the middle of the floor and piss and shit, often stomping in the puddle of pee and splashing it on coppers shoes and pants as they walked by. One WC ordered his guys NEVER to bring her into the station again, to personally take her straight to Women's Detention if they thought it was sooo important to arrest her.

Got to a point where guys would avoid her because it just was not worth the trouble... but Marilyn, as annoying and disgusting as she was, was just a "crazy as a fox" hooker. Rumor has it she put a daughter through college by working the streets. On occasion, she'd be a snitch for the tac guys and use it to earn a pass here and there from being sent downtown. But she wasn't really violent. Oh, she'd whoop on any of the black girls or the johns who'd try to take her money or who tried to take advantage of her, but for her, that was self defense and self preservation, AND stealing from her kid's college fund. She also learned to work the system, but she wasn't the kind of crazy violent that Shermain Miles is. Marilyn never attacked anyone that didn't come after her first.

Wonder whatever happened to Marilyn? As crude and disgusting as she was, I could see her lying back on a tropical beach somewhere, sipping Pina Coladas and enjoying her retirement...

We need more aldermen. If we have one out of every ten taxpayers converted to aldermen, then more criminals will go to jail because its just a matter of odds they will be a victims just like taxpayers. Also, there will be 1 out of ten that will be able to conceal and carry.

The Lt. from EARPS most likely has a take home car for the same reason the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrahkahns son has a "take home" Harvey unmarked car! CLOUT!..It's spelled the same in English and Arabic! lol

We are doing our job and this is just more proof of it. This happens all the time. There is a lot of this going on. Its not only people comitting petty crimes getting a slap on the hand. The ASA and Judges our a big part of it. Also need more cells if your really going to get serious with punishment.

Cook County is a joke on crime. They need to compare us with other counties and you would see what's what.

I attempted to lock up Miles AKA Charmaine Boone a few years ago for Agg Assault to CTA employee but she knows exactly what to say. She waited for a white shirt to arrive on scene then she said directly to the Sgt. "I don't want to live anymore, just kill me". The Sgt. told me to psyc her instead of locking her up for pulling a knife on the CTA bus driver. During the ambulance ride she just smiled at me and laughed knowing that she beat the system. I told the Sgt that Charmaine was just playing you, and the Sgt told me we couldn't take any chances. What if she really killed herself? I said the world would be a better place! I was never so disgusted!

She ain't no Rodney Roberson.....he's got over 400 arrests in 020,024,019/023 and manages to get arrested about 2-5 times a week. He gets sent to court on bail bond violations and they bond court judge gives him another i-bond.

"She gets judges to delay her cases. And then she returns to the streets to be arrested again and again — so many times that she ranks in the top 1 percent for all current CPD arrestees — after a day of allegedly slapping, punching and generally harassing folks on a stretch of Broadway in Uptown — she is accused of chasing after Ald. James Cappleman (46th)."

Some countries have what are euphemistically called "merchants' associations" -- the purpose of which seems to be to make your more egregious examples such as this well, uh, disappear.

Frustrated 50 said...I attempted to lock up Miles AKA Charmaine Boone a few years ago for Agg Assault to CTA employee but she knows exactly what to say. She waited for a white shirt to arrive on scene then she said directly to the Sgt. "I don't want to live anymore, just kill me". The Sgt. told me to psyc her instead of locking her up for pulling a knife on the CTA bus driver. During the ambulance ride she just smiled at me and laughed knowing that she beat the system. I told the Sgt that Charmaine was just playing you, and the Sgt told me we couldn't take any chances. What if she really killed herself? I said the world would be a better place! I was never so disgusted!

4/22/2013 12:30:00 PM

So the next time just pepper spray her demented ass because you were afraid she was going to take you with her when she checked out.

Wonder whatever happened to Marilyn? As crude and disgusting as she was, I could see her lying back on a tropical beach somewhere, sipping Pina Coladas and enjoying her retirement...

4/22/2013 06:45:00 AM

Last time I saw Marilyn about five months ago, she was wrapped in a dirty old blanket, sitting on the sidewalk on Washington St downtown near the Picasso, begging for loose change. It looks like all those years on the street have really caught up with her.

Anonymous said... The criminal justice system is ill equipped to deal with these kind of people and the mental health system does not do much better.

Not that I have an answer to this problem, but I can understand why the system has had such a tough time dealing with her.

One might think though that at some point the system would realize there is a problem here that is not going to just go away.

Not a cop.

4/22/2013 02:23:00 PM

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The thanks for all of these mental cases on the streets goes to our governmental bodies that for decades have decided that these individuals can live amongst the regular populous while getting their care voluntarilty from neighborhood clinics.

I love this! Someone else remembers Kent. Kent Fly had so many ANOVs that he never appeared for that he was arrest only. rap sheet an inch thick. R.i.p. Kent. Killed at the Cermak Chinatown exit while begging, hit by a car.

Reliable rumor NO concealed and carry in Chicago for just anybody! Just seen law tiny dancer wants and is "may", issue a permit, So without their justifiable reason to meet his standards the adverage citizen will NOT get a permit! Must meet minimum income and have bond insurance because city trying to get around law suit if somebody shoots someone and they have a permit and are criminally WRONG! They are afraid of suit against city for issuing permit with surety bond or not and you and I know some lawyer will SUE the city!

Frustrated 50 said...I attempted to lock up Miles AKA Charmaine Boone a few years ago for Agg Assault to CTA employee but she knows exactly what to say. She waited for a white shirt to arrive on scene then she said directly to the Sgt. "I don't want to live anymore, just kill me". The Sgt. told me to psyc her instead of locking her up for pulling a knife on the CTA bus driver. During the ambulance ride she just smiled at me and laughed knowing that she beat the system. I told the Sgt that Charmaine was just playing you, and the Sgt told me we couldn't take any chances. What if she really killed herself? I said the world would be a better place! I was never so disgusted!

4/22/2013 12:30:00 PM

Shame on you for listening to a sergeant. I tell sergeants to go fuck themselves and not one has done a thing to me.

bright red 1958 plymouth fury said...Wonder whatever happened to Marilyn? As crude and disgusting as she was, I could see her lying back on a tropical beach somewhere, sipping Pina Coladas and enjoying her retirement...

4/22/2013 06:45:00 AM

She became Phat Phil's Conciliare and eventually a key Water Tower Place Parking Valet for Kapt. Christine K.

4/22/2013 07:51:00 PM

Capt. CK's famous quote in giving advice to a female officer: "Don't ever fuck anyone who can't help you."

Anonymous said...Wonder whatever happened to Marilyn? As crude and disgusting as she was, I could see her lying back on a tropical beach somewhere, sipping Pina Coladas and enjoying her retirement...

4/22/2013 06:45:00 AM

Let's stop romanticizing this woman. She is a mental, nothing more.

4/22/2013 05:04:00 PM

Maybe when you knew her but she wasn't always that way. Have you no sense of adventure? Where is the romantic in you? The whores and the other people who gave certain neighborhoods their flavor and color and what made Chicago an interesting place.

Look at those neighborhoods now, no more like Marilyn, just bland humorless fucks, damn few interesting people. No one around to generate stories 40 years from now.

I love this! Someone else remembers Kent. Kent Fly had so many ANOVs that he never appeared for that he was arrest only. rap sheet an inch thick. R.i.p. Kent. Killed at the Cermak Chinatown exit while begging, hit by a car.

Anonymous said...Frustrated 50 said...I attempted to lock up Miles AKA Charmaine Boone a few years ago for Agg Assault to CTA employee but she knows exactly what to say. She waited for a white shirt to arrive on scene then she said directly to the Sgt. "I don't want to live anymore, just kill me". The Sgt. told me to psyc her instead of locking her up for pulling a knife on the CTA bus driver. During the ambulance ride she just smiled at me and laughed knowing that she beat the system. I told the Sgt that Charmaine was just playing you, and the Sgt told me we couldn't take any chances. What if she really killed herself? I said the world would be a better place! I was never so disgusted!

4/22/2013 12:30:00 PM

Shame on you for listening to a sergeant. I tell sergeants to go fuck themselves and not one has done a thing to me.

That's just what the Brits did - one person is in debt and the government, locks up the whole family and sends thm to prison. Didn't we start a revolution to get away from that crap? Why on earth if her sister responsible for her misdeeds?

We have some of the best sgts in the 20th dist,the officer making this comment is way out of line,and we know who he is,he cant be trusted always been a hater brown nose,suck a--. 20 sec brown nose,suck a--